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TD Synnex opens doors to new UK HQ as part of a sustainability pivot

CRN caught up with the distie to hear more about its ethos on in-office working and focus on eco-friendly buildings

Maplewood, Chineham

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Maplewood, Chineham

Global distributor TD Synnex has moved house after opening the doors to its new UK headquarters in Chineham on the outskirts of Basingstoke, Hampshire.

The 450-500 staff at the previous HQ, named Redwood, have now packed up and set up camp in the new Maplewood office.

TD Synnex currently has six sites across UK&I in Basingstoke, Bracknell, Lutterworth, Warrington, York and Dublin.

Speaking to CRN, Kevin Wragg, director of environment & quality compliance for TD Synnex explained that the reason behind the office change was driven by its environmental sustainability priorities.

"When we started to assess our carbon footprint early last year, we realised that the current Basingstoke office would need some significant improvements," he said.

After conversations with the landlord the distributor came to the consensus that it would be easier to vacate and move to a new building.

"We now have a brand new shiny building less than 100 metres down the road that actually met everything that we wanted and needed."

The future of work

In October, born-in-the-cloud distributor Pax8 opened a new office in Bristol, while Computacenter revealed in the same month during CRN's MSP Transform event it is weighing up a downsize of its offices following the explosion in hybrid working.

Of the two, TD Synnex is pursuing a similar path to Pax8 around its outlook on the future of work, by committing to in-office working whilst offering hybrid and flexible options.

"The plans that we have around offices is to continue with the sites we have and to make those environments as collaborative as possible and as sustainable as possible," the distributor's group marketing director for UK&I, Linda Patterson said.

"We consider collaboration as a really important part of our culture as an organisation, whilst at the same time recognising that providing flexibility to our co-workers is also really important."

Wragg added he strongly believes that for the vast majority of the group's UK and Ireland employees, they need to be in an office at least two days a week are all there to collaborate and work cross functionally.

"And the workforce is saying they want exactly that. They want a different working environment and we're providing them with that."

Sustainability drive

The new Chineham office has achieved a gold Ska rating in its fit-out sustainability assessment from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Wragg said this is a goal for the group's other offices as it aims to raise the bar on its UK sustainability efforts.

"Our goal in the UK is to reduce our energy consumption in 2023 by 20 per cent which will be a significant achievement," Wragg explained.

"During 2023 75 per cent of our offices will now be using renewable energy, and that means that overall, of all of the offices in the UK 90 per cent of our energy consumption should come from a renewable source."